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Sunday Supper

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The setup

A cozy dinner party sours when one husband's wish for a weekly Sunday supper meets polite refusal and he spirals into a runaway tantrum.

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People have lives, Mark!

How about breakfast here every morning at 6 a.m.?

I'll befriend a large, simple man, and at the end of the story, I'll shoot him in the back of the head.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Friends relax on the sofa after a lovely evening until Mark floats the idea of doing it every Sunday. Each guest has a gentle excuse, and his eagerness curdles into embarrassment. He storms upstairs, then comes back down dressed for the road with a bindle and a packed suitcase, announcing he is running away for good. The others scramble to talk him out of it while his wife and friends uncover increasingly alarming details of his past escape attempts, and every compromise he offers only makes the commitment bigger. He leaves with a dramatic farewell, and the guests are left wondering whether they will ever see him again.

ScriptEnglish · 48 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:02

    Mark

    Oh, my God. Oh, wow, you guys. This has just been such a lovely evening. I don't want it to end.

  2. 00:09

    Guest

    Aw, me either. Yeah, this has been a delight.

  3. 00:12

    Wife

    I know. Mark and I always love having you guys over.

  4. 00:15

    Mark

    Yes. This has been amazing. Yes. Guys. Am I crazy? We should do this, like, every Sunday?

  5. 00:26

    Guest

    Uh, what do you mean?

  6. 00:28

    Mark

    This. Us, every Sunday, right? dinner, us, Sunday supper. Every Sunday, Sunday supper, right? Let's do it every week, Sunday supper.

  7. 00:43

    Denise

    Well, that'd be nice, but we'd have to get a sitter.

  8. 00:46

    Guest

    No way, babe, those teens drive a hard bargain. Totally. Totally.

  9. 00:54

    Mark

    No, totally, yeah, that makes sense.

  10. 00:58

    Guest

    Yeah, plus we usually do dinner with my parents on Sundays.

  11. 01:02

    Wife

    How are your parents?

  12. 01:04

    Mark

    Right. Totally. You got to do that. Yeah, just, it wouldn't work. Yeah. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I just got excited about Sunday supper.

  13. 01:19

    Mark

    But, yeah, like, it wouldn't work, right? People have lives, Mark! Bleah!

  14. 01:27

    Mark

    I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but seriously, guys, don't worry. It's fine.

  15. 01:40

    Denise

    Is he okay?

  16. 01:42

    Wife

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's fine. He's just, you know, he gets himself worked up about Sunday supper is all.

  17. 01:48

    Guest

    Well, he seemed really heartbroken.

  18. 01:50

    Wife

    Oh, no, no, no. He'll be fine. He's a tough little guy.

  19. 01:54

    Mark

    I have an announcement. I am running away.

  20. 02:03

    Denise

    I'm sorry what's happening

  21. 02:05

    Mark

    what's happening is I'm running away Denise I'm running away and never coming back because I'm embarrassed I got too excited about Sunday supper and no one else wanted to do Sunday supper

  22. 02:17

    Guest

    you have to run away for that yeah yeah mark it's fine we're all having a really nice time still yeah yeah tonight's been been great

  23. 02:25

    Mark

    so then we'll do it we'll do Sunday Supper?

  24. 02:35

    Guest

    I'm sorry, we just can't really...

  25. 02:37

    Guest

    Oh, No, look what

  26. 02:40

    Wife

    done. You've been too rough with your things, Mark!

  27. 02:44

    Guest

    Hey, dude, Dude, what did you pack?

  28. 02:47

    Wife

    It's... it's everything from his dress-up box.

  29. 02:50

    Guest

    He has a dress-up box?!

  30. 02:52

    Wife

    It's not what you think. It's to play make-believe.

  31. 02:56

    Denise

    I've never seen Mark like this. Has he ever run away before?

  32. 03:00

    Wife

    Yeah, and last week he was ordering pizza, and he said I love you to the guy on the phone. He got so embarrassed that that night he tried to hop a freight train, and then he got scared because somebody offered him crack.

  33. 03:12

    Guest

    Well, maybe we can do a different day.

  34. 03:17

    Mark

    Can we do Saturday supper?

  35. 03:20

    Guest

    Our son has basketball. No! No! Mark! No! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark, you keep a jug of gasoline behind your couch? Mark, stop it! Stop drinking gasoline!

  36. 03:36

    Guest

    Yeah, yeah, maybe we could do something that's less of a commitment.

  37. 03:41

    Mark

    How about breakfast here every morning at 6 a.m.?

  38. 03:44

    Guest

    Feels like more of a commitment, Mark. Mark! No! Mark! Mark! Stop it.

  39. 03:52

    Mark

    I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I gotta go.

  40. 03:55

    Wife

    No, Mark, you can't leave me. Come on.

  41. 04:00

    Mark

    I don't belong in this world, sugar. I belong out there. on the tracks

  42. 04:07

    Wife

    where will you go what do you do

  43. 04:10

    Mark

    I'll befriend a large simple man and at the end of the story I'll shoot him in the back of the head but it'll be the right thing to do cuz he has rabies

  44. 04:23

    Guest

    I think you got your references mixed up there mark

  45. 04:28

    Mark

    I'll always love you but now I gotta go cuz I'm embarrassed I got too too excited for Sunday Supper and nobody else wanted to do Sunday Supper Goodbye.

  46. 04:47

    Denise

    Wow, do you guys think we'll ever see him again

  47. 04:51

    Wife

    I hope not Because he is a burden on my life he belongs out there a free soul on the tracks the

  48. 05:06

    Mark

    neighbor's dog was outside and I got scared

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